Cap and Jacket

Observer, Volume XXVII, Issue 45, 27 July 1907, Page 15

Cap and Jacket

By Boz,

Auckland Racing Club's profit for the season was £3293 19s Id. Paritutu goes on to Riccarton after the Wellington Meeting. Acceptances for the N.Z. Grand Nationals fall due on the 26th inst. Old Dingo and The Swimmer continue to run disappointingly on the other side. Wairiki's full brother, Seddon, has been well backed for Caulfield and Melbourne Cups. "Wanganui Jockey Club had a good season, the accounts closing with a profit of £1535 Os 6d. Queensland clubs are considering following New Zealand's lead in opening double machines. The New Zealand horse, Lion Heart, was passed in at auction at Melbourne last week at 300gs. Pattypan and Canton have been responsible for some good schooling work over the hurdles at Riccarton. Bribery, the V.R.C. Grand National Hurdles winner, has been purchased by Mr D. J. Price for £600. Jeanne d'Arc is in work again at Palmerston North, after a long absence. She is thought to be quite sound. Government tax on the totalisator paid by the Auckland Racing Club for the season totalled the sum of £3250 4s. Argentine Jockey Club's programme of a meeting, to be held at Buenos Ayres in 1910, is to include a race of £20,000. Pretty Maid was withdrawn from the Grand National Hurdle Race last week as a result of injuries received at Napier Park. The New Zealand Grand National Steeplechase is run on August 14th, and the Grand National Hurdles on the following day. Corona was scratched last Thursday for the N.Z. Grand National Steeplechase, and Assayer for all engagements at the Meeting. Ben Johnson's run in the Wellington Winter Hurdles was a great disappointment to his backers. He apparently tired to nothing. The totalisator return in France for the present year has reached over £4,000,000. The turnover for the whole of last year was £3,400,000. Seaman, a well-supported New Zealand Cup candidate, failed to run prominently in the Parliamentary Handicap at Wellington last Saturday. The totalisator investments for the season at Ellerslie reached the total of £216,680, the Auckland Racing Club's profit on the turnover being £17,368. There is every indication at present that Phaetonitis will start a strong favourite for the N.Z. Grand National Steeplechase. Waitarere is also in strong favour. Inniskillen, Shrapnel and Lady Hune were taken South by the Ngapuhi on Sunday last, en route for Christchurch, to fulfil their N.Z. Grand National engagements. Cayalry ran a very decent raca in the Wellington Hurdles, though finishing only third. The race, was run in 3min. 52 4-ssec, the winner, Lull carrying only 9st.- 41b. Cavalry put in a good finishing run, but^ it was made too .latei to be effective. The dividend on Cavalry would have been about £15,

Waipu is being tried over Jiujjdteq:., at Napier and -has, so> y far| ■ s^ap'ed satisfactorily. ' ' •*♦-»'■ '-- Orloff ' s yearling brother, .who .^yas taken to Melbourne by D. J. Price, is now being trained by E. A. Connolly at Mordialloc. . ' ''. Pushful, the favourite for" ( the . Wellington Winter Hurdles, was' never prominent in the race, ( a,'ni ' finished in the ruck. . '. /' Lull, the winner of the Wellington Winter Hurdles, should take some. beating in the N.Z. Grand National Hurdles with 9st. 111 b. • . Aberration's withdrawal from the Winter Cup is understood to have been decided upon on account of his being too big in condition to be prspared in time. A Wellington writer says Harvest's defection from the Winter Cup caused heart burning amongst early backers, who had liberally supported tho Clanranald horse. W. Gall left this week for the Waikato to bring up . Hidden Treasure, by Lochness-Miss Sly, and a gelding by Lochness-Miss Lochie, both rising four-year-olds. At the opening day of the Wellington Winter Meeting the totalisator returns showed an increase of £3853 as compared with the opening day last year. The sum put through was £15,308. The opening event of the Welling-' ton Winter Meeting was won by the St. Clement's horse, St. Bill, 'by a length, after Gawa-in had been indulged with the lead for five out of the six furlongs. The double machine at the opening day of the Wellington Winter Meeting was operated on the Parliamentary Handicap and Winter Hurdles, Ellerton and Lull being the respective winners. The dividend paid was £113 11s. The Wellington Racing Cltib's Winter Meeting closes on Saturday* , 27th in st. This meeting closes the' racing for the present season, th^e N.Z. Grand National Meeting 'being" technically the first - meeting -of tie new season. Shrapnel was winner last year of Wellington Winter Hurdles ; this year he is being kept for the # N.Z.Grand National. He was shipped, for Christchurch last Sunday in company with Inniskillen. : .'3!he pai?.s have been well supported. . .. There were ten starters for the Wellington Winter Hurdles, Paritutu and Le Beau being amongst the scratched ones. Merriwai . was a,, starter and finished sixth. Lull.. the winner, had only a moderate following and paid the fairly substantial dividend of £7 ss. Lull has incurred a 101 b. penalty for the N.Z. G.N. Hurdles, as a result of his Winter Hurdles victory &fc Wellington last _ Saturday. ; '■"This raises his weight in the Riccarton race to 9st. 111 b., which is 71b/more than he carried in Wellington. A disposition to back Master Delaval for New Zealand Cup was evidenced last week, when enquiries., were made in the local betting market as to his price. The'^rice quoted — 100' s to 6 — was evidently not sufficiently inducive, as no^bjisiness resulted. % . •'■;,- v> A big field of seventeen •.•ifatses started for the Parliamentary Hafe dicap at Trentham last Saturday, the race being won by the Seaton Pelav&l horse, Ellerton, who paid £5 16 si telligence, who started favourite,' was beaten before the straight -^ias reached. Ellerton won comfortably by half^-a-length in 1.47 3-5. V ; ... At Lewes (Eng.) last month the N.Z. jockey, L. H. Hewitt, won a three-year-old handicap dn- Cflarptbi, who was not even mentioned.. ip..the., betting. The following day (sayaan exchange) Hewitt won a two-year-old race' on a filly named Lucy Ashton, and when he. scored the R.oya.l.flunt Cup at AscQt-bn :•■,..■• Jjtfßy-.i6®e^^pßS®? ! started at 100 to 6, and beat twentyfour others. Any backer following Hewitt's mounts since his arrival in England would probably, be a „go/?d deal ahead of it, as aj^leasi^hree-of the winners He' has ridden have started at outside. price^> -a^di^^^^iiuir aipg average is a gbbij b»eu '